Login
Register
About
Ask a Question
Post an Idea
Questions & Answers
Ideas
Lab Projects
Edit
Rating: NA
|
01/05/2013

New way to sterilize devices

The Flash 9.0.0 plugin or higher is required to view content on this page, but was not detected on your browser.
Get Flash Player
    It has been discovered that a compound derived from Douglas fir needles can be used sterilize surgical devices and medical implants.
    The idea is to develop a self-sterilizing composite material derived from the needles of the Douglas fir. The extract from the needles will be combined with a silver nitrate solution, where the extract will function as a natural chemical reducing agent and convert the silver ions in the nitrate solution to nanoscopic silver metal particles. This will allow the nanoparticles to be dispersed in chitosan polymer to create a sterilizing coating for materials such as metal implants and surgical tools.
Discussion
START A DISCUSSION
Picture
Alice
 
92%
Abusive
Previous Next